At the center of our mission as a school is the urgency to present the Catholic tradition in its integrity to our contemporary world. This was also the fundamental concern of these extraordinary popes.

It is this outward engagement with the modern world through integrating philosophical and theological study according to the mind and method of St. Thomas Aquinas that is the hallmark of the education we provide at DSPT. The reconciliation of the world with the truth of the Gospel is the work to which we invite each of our students.

Both saints together taught us that we will not evangelize our modern world by condemning it or disparaging it or by engaging it politically. Instead, we will touch the hearts and minds of our contemporaries by revealing to them their identity and profound dignity as persons in the “unique and unrepeatable human reality” that each of them manifests in all of the concreteness of his or her life as “friend of God and heir to eternal glory.”
Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP, What John XXIII and John Paul II Can Teach Us